Hefner Quotes & Sayings

I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart. — Hugh Hefner

We don't fight about money ... I hate to see people fight about money. — Christie Hefner

It's hard to really compare new love and old love. — Hugh Hefner

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill. — Christie Hefner

Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are. — Hugh Hefner

At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table — Christie Hefner

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young. — Christie Hefner

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young. — Christie Hefner

I think that sexual oppression and dictatorship go hand in hand. — Hugh Hefner

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old. — Christie Hefner

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde. — Hugh Hefner

I had a stroke in 1985 ... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit." — Hugh Hefner

I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably. — Hugh Hefner

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier. — Clive James

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds. — Hugh Hefner

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer. — Hugh Hefner

In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with. — Christie Hefner

It has been our experience that women usually prefer thin, undernourished, flatchested females, dressed to the teeth, as a concept of "feminine beauty"
and that men prefer exactly the opposite: voluptuous, well-rounded and undressed. The women's idealization of woman is actually a male counterpart, competing with man in society; man's view of women is far more truly feminine. — Hugh Hefner

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life. — Hugh Hefner

Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels. — Hugh Hefner

I told Hugh Hefner, "I have this crazy boyfriend." And Hef was like, "You're not going anywhere with a crazy boyfriend," and so he put me in a mansion in Bel-Air with an opera singing Chinese maid, and I was driving a Bentley, and a friend of mine came by and was like, "What is going on? Why are you living in this mansion?" And I was like, "Isn't this what happens when people move to LA? — Pamela Anderson

It's important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races. — Christie Hefner

I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists. — Christie Hefner

If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that. — Hugh Hefner

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young. — Hugh Hefner

I am just so happy and thrilled and I am so glad Mr. Hefner chose me. — Anna Nicole Smith

I would like to think that I will be remembered as someone who had some positive impact on the sociosexual values of his time. And I think I'm secure and happy in that. — Hugh Hefner

Half of my employees are women. — Christie Hefner

Tonight, I want to curl up with a good book and visit my fictional boyfriends. Now let me tell you, my list is long. I am the equivalent to Hugh Hefner, but instead of bunnies I have this ever-growing list of male characters that have stolen my heart. I — Kat T. Masen

The sexual revolutionaries of the 1960s, including advocates for 'adult' material such as Hugh Hefner and Al Goldstein, represented porn to us as a great social radicalizer. But a nation of masturbating people who are looking at screens rather than at one another - who are consuming sex like any other product and who are rewiring their brains to find less and less abandon and joy in one another's arms, and to bond more and more with pixels - is a subjugated, not a liberated, population. — Naomi Wolf

I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely. — Hugh Hefner

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. — Hugh Hefner

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway. — Christie Hefner

Beauty is everywhere
on the campus, in the office, living next door ... Nice girls like sex too
it's a natural part of life. Don't be ashamed of it. — Hugh Hefner

Without question, love in its various permutations is what we need more of in this world. The idea that the concept of marriage will be sullied by same-sex marriage is ridiculous. Heterosexuals haven't been doing that well at it on their own. — Hugh Hefner

Every couple years when Mr. [Hugh] Hefner would call, I would very graciously decline, because my mom would kill me, and I thought it was more mysterious keeping my clothes on. — Cindy Margolis

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. — Hugh Hefner

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols. — Hugh Hefner

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company. — Christie Hefner

I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the boy. — Charlaine Harris

I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times. — Christie Hefner

The phenomena there is something in us that on the one hand bonds us with like people but somehow makes us suspicious of other people. — Hugh Hefner

In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life. — Hugh Hefner

Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate. — Christie Hefner

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher. — Hugh Hefner

Power has not corrupted me. I have not become jaded. I wake up every day well aware of my good fortune, loving the work I do, loving my life, realizing that life is a crapshoot and I'm on a roll second to none. — Hugh Hefner

There are many roads to Mecca. — Hugh Hefner

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman. — Jessica Hahn

The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex. — Hugh Hefner

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people. — Hugh Hefner

Famous Playboy Hugh Hefner managed to successfully stop an order of monks from operating a business on his property. The police forced the friars to close down their stall, which was outside the Playboy mansion where they had been selling flowers. Said one friar, well, if it was anyone else we may have gotten away from it, but, unfortunately, only Hugh can prevent florist friars. — Colin Mochrie

I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time. — Hugh Hefner

Playboy was founded on the notion that nice girls like sex too. — Hugh Hefner

Playboy strategically selected the Forum Shops at Caesars in Las Vegas to debut our first U.S. store because it is one of the most successful retail shopping destinations in the world. It is clear that Playboy and Las Vegas are a powerful match, presenting the chance for consumers and visitors to experience all of the glamour, sexiness, style and fun associated with both. — Christie Hefner

I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build. — Christie Hefner

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers. — Hugh Hefner

The business end of business has never interested me. — Hugh Hefner

Due to some mental hiccup I can't explain, when I think of God, I picture Hugh Hefner: a thin, angular man with a prominent chin in a maroon smoking jacket. — Jonathan Tropper

I had an opportunity many, many times to go to the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. Jerry Buss asked me many times and you know what, looking back that was stupid of me not going there. — Marcel Dionne

There's always been a little bit of the crusader in me, and you need dragons to slay, without the conflict and the controversy I think that what I managed to do less, and I take a great deal of pride in the accomplishment. — Hugh Hefner

Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men. — Hugh Hefner

It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean
if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers. — Hugh Hefner

If a beautiful women expressed interest in me and my company, I don't really probe their motivations. Call me shallow. — Hugh Hefner

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet. — Hugh Hefner

I've never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient. — Hugh Hefner

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are. — Hugh Hefner

The religious heritage sort of suggests implicitly and explicitly that you pay your dues and you get your reward later on, that's a little inconsistent with the notion of personal, happiness. I am a strong believer in a set of values that are rooted in the notion of happiness and personal fulfillment. — Hugh Hefner

My best pick-up line is My name is Hugh Hefner. — Hugh Hefner

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality. — Christie Hefner

I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times. And I think that whatever part Playboy played and that I managed to play in terms of the sexual revolution came out of what I saw in the negative part of that life and tried to change things in some positive way so that people could choose alternate personal ways of living their lives. — Hugh Hefner

I remain very much connected to my childhood ... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated. — Hugh Hefner

Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.' — Hugh Hefner

They must be doing something right up there in Canada. — Hugh Hefner

I have to admit, I have a little sad addiction. I love watching on the E Channel that stupid show, The Girls Next Door. It's a very sad thing to say and I don't know how to explain it but I am addicted to Hugh Hefner's girlfriends and The Girls Next Door. — Julie Halston

I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me. — Hugh Hefner

I suggested that sex was not the enemy, that violence was the enemy, that nice girls like sex. — Hugh Hefner

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn. — Hugh Hefner

Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female. — Hugh Hefner

We have a tremendous opportunity to try to start solving some of our overwhelming problems with population related environment, related to the hatred that exists between countries and religions, so we have a tremendous opportunity, but the dangers are very clearly there. — Hugh Hefner

One of the things I've tried to do with my life is redefine the boundaries that I think are very limiting. I'm not suggesting that everybody should have three girlfriends, or necessarily have girlfriends living with them. I think there are many, many options to living your life. — Hugh Hefner

The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad. — Hugh Hefner

For some people, there is no succession plan. They just leave, and there's no getting over it. — Hugh Hefner

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success. — Christie Hefner

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship. — Christie Hefner

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes. — Hugh Hefner

Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports. — Hugh Hefner

Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock. — Christie Hefner

I had an allowance, but I had to do things around the house to earn it. I think I always wanted my own money. — Christie Hefner

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion. — Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner and Playboy spoke to the values of an audience that craved individual expression, it wanted to look good and feel good now. Playboy's early mission was "exclusivity, sophistication and taste." While Playboy's iconic logo is those bunny ears, its brand was the association it created in its audience's minds. — Michael R. Drew

Over the course of my life I've had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women, many moved on to live happy, healthy, and productive lives, and I'm pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight. I guess, as the old saying goes: You can't win 'em all! — Hugh Hefner

I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s. — Hugh Hefner

I think the Playboy philosophy is very, very connected to the American dream. — Hugh Hefner

Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses. — Hugh Hefner

People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer. — Hugh Hefner

We're separated by our myths. — Hugh Hefner

There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in. — Hugh Hefner

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife. — Hugh Hefner

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave. — Hugh Hefner